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  • 6 - Roman Dominium in the Republics of Latin America

  • Anna di Robilant, Boston University
  • Book:
    The Making of Modern Property
    Published online:
    13 July 2023
    Print publication:
    27 July 2023, pp 235-279

  • Summary

    This chapter charts the emergence of an anti-feudal disocurse of property modernization and the newly indpendent republics of Latin America. While the tones and the arguments of this anti-feudal discourse echoed the assault on feudal property in the metropole, the intellectual sources and the material interests of the detractors of feudalism in Latin America were far more complex. The liberal creole elites drew upon a vast and diverse political-economy literature that went beyond the obvious canonical authors of the French Enlightenment and included semi-peripheral regional traditions, such as the Neapolitan Enlightenment, that more closely resonated with their specific concerns about underdevelopment and metropolitan-satellite relations. Committed to agricultural improvement but also reluctant to undo the semi-feudal relations of production that allowed the landed elite to extract profit from the peasantry, jurists crafted a system that combined feudal property and modern dominium.